ISNS' Celebrates 10th Annual Chinese Cultural Week

Feb. 9, 2018

What you didn't know about Chinese New Year with Ms. Joyce Zhao, Head of Mandarin!

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese Lunar New Year which has a history of over
4,000 years. The Spring Festival is a time to pray for the year. Spring
Festival is also a time for family reunion. On New Year's eve, the family
gathers together to eat the "New Year's eve dinner", and the elders
hand out "lucky money" to the children. The family sits together
waiting for the new year coming. Spring Festival is also a festival for public
entertainment. During the Spring Festival, various activities are
launched: lion dance, dragon lantern dance, yangko dance, etc., which adds a
strong festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the most
ceremonious traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It is the annual
carnival of the Chinese nation and the eternal spiritual pillar.

The Annual Chinese Culture Week at ISNS has a history of ten years. In the Chinese Culture Week, we organize various activities for students, teachers and parents to feel, learn and spread Chinese traditional culture.

The 10th ISNS Chinese Culture Week, this year, was held from February 5th to Feb 9th, 2018. On Monday, we held a "Spring Couplets Writing" activity. Students and teachers wrote Spring couplets for the classrooms and teachers' offices. On Tuesday, students played traditional Chinese games in the playground, such as kicking shuttlecock, throwing sand bags and jumping rubber bands - very popular among students. After school, the Chinese teachers worked with the Cooking Club teachers to make traditional dumpling.

On Wednesday, we held the Students Calligraphy Works Exhibition.

Thursday, we held the grand celebration, inviting traditional lion dance, Chinese Kongfu Show, Face Changing performance to the School. After the show, we had a traditional art exhibition which include calligraphy seal cutting, Chinese painting, Chinese meticulous painting, windmills, dough figurine, sugar painting, silhouette, flowers and birds words, mask art; at the same time, we had a Chinese Food Fair which provided by our lovely parents. In the afternoon, there was a Chinese Cultural Show. Students, parents and teachers all embraced the wonderful performance. We also had various class activities on Friday.